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This showed up at my buddy's shop the other day, owner wants to get it running. Obviously has been in a garage; last registered in 1974, the odometer shows 56,xxx miles. Stovebolt 6, 3-spd manual and zero rot.

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If only Nissan would sell a Rouge-sized version of the Leaf, it would outsell any Tesla on the marketplace. Too bad Nissan is not run very well these days.

Hi, I went to a studio and had some snapshots taken

The A-class in Europe is mostly just hatchbacks...competitor for the BMW 1-series and A3...premium brand, not sure how premium the product is..

Do we really want to say the MB A-Class is a Premium vehicle? ?

You mean; toyoter vibe.

Your reading comprehension level is dogsh!t. Read the whole thing before jumping to a conclusion. How many times do I have to say that it IS USELESS UNLESS THERE ARE ENOUGH VEHICLES USING IT.

I love that 2-door sedan roofline.

Yep, they're off Broadway just south of Sky Harbor Int. Airport! Pretty sweet looking trucks.

Too bad Tesla expects everyone to pay BMW 3 series pricing in order to get one. If EVs are to take over Europe, we need EVs that are the price of a VW Golf, not a Tesla model 3.

I like the look of it at least. That's about as nice as I can be about it. Maybe with a rotary generator it will be more impressive.

and here I am just psyched that it's going to look like a 1930's train.

w00t! I got a Camaro convertible for my rental car here in Texas.

again... people should only be using superchargers when they have less range than it will take them to get home. It is an entirely wrong mindset to unplug your car from your house, go to Mejier or whatever, plug in there, and go shopping. Even a Leaf with 110 mile range can handle all of the shopping in a single day without having to recharge. It gets worse if they are paying to recharge (Like most of those Model-3s probably are), it costs more to charge up at a public station than it does to charge up at home. The only way I can see having to do this is if you live in an apartment complex and not have access to a charger at home. A friend of mine with a Volt does that, but he has a charger at work, so he charges up until its time for lunch and then goes out and moves his car. With the ~7 mile commute he has, he almost never uses gasoline in the Volt.

Going through Dunkin Donuts this morning I had a yellow Challenger Hellcat Redeye behind me..nice rumble. Guy w/ white hair and beard, was blasting ZZTop..

I forgot this one. Yesterday, in my local Starbucks's parking lot, I saw a new or fairly new Dodge Charger with temporary plates parked there, with the driver on his phone. It was the lime green, like you'd have in your Hot Wheels collection when you were a kid. On a Charger, this color works. The badge on the side said "392" and it was idling, but displayed no weird cam/lifter noise. It was fairly hushed. His windows were heavily tinted. So I pointed it at his sled and gave him the "okay" sign with my hand. He nodded in appreciation. Like the one on the left:

Question. Can you fill up your gas tank at home?

When I 'gas up', it takes maybe 5 mins. If I were to leave my vehicle, walking into the store, pick out a snack, pay & walk back, my vehicle is likely refueled & waiting. That means others may well be waiting on me to get my chimmi-chunga back to the vehicle and out of their way. When one 'watts up', the owner wanders off and has a sit-down meal because they have 20-30-40 mins to waste. There's TIME to shop because there's a long period of inactive boredom to relieve. The 'refueling' time 'encourages' you to pay even more money. Yes; you are not required to. You can sit in your car, stare at your phone. Or nap if you want/are sleepy. Or you can walk laps of the parking lot. All idle things... because you are WAITING. Or you can open your wallet. It wouldn't be 'any different' if an EV charged in 5 mins.

3 deep waiting, seems to be backlogged at this Fred Meyers Tesla Charging station. This is pretty common here be it Tesla or the generic charging stations. You have a major shop point, variety of food places and other retail. Makes it easy to charge, shop, eat and go. FYI: Behind these Tesla's are a huge 5000 Apartment complex and many are Tesla Owners, so I am sure this is a major recharge point for them.

I actually agree with this and as we move away form ICE auto's to skateboard platforms of EVs, if the public wants a sedan style coach, they will get it easily as the platform will allow a quick change in coach design to be attached to the skateboard. In this regards we are like back in the early 1900's when everything was body on frame and we had a multitude of coach builders using GM or Ford Frames.

FMC needs to hack CEO Hackett like yesterday, he's the weakest link that wanted to cut all cars.

Well, that’s getting somewhere...... Not sure why, but I like the Leaf.....maybe because it is an EV that still looks more like a normal car......